In the latest of our articles from our team of contributors, Zophar – who has eight top 10k FPL finishes to his name – discusses his Euro 2024 Fantasy team.
He reveals his chipless approach to Matchday 2 and puts together an example Wildcard for those playing it.
It’s been a great start to Euro 2024, with some thrilling matches. Monday brought with it some big upsets with Belgium and Ukraine both losing to lesser-fancied opposition. In terms of Fantasy, returns for the popular picks have been few and far between. Only England and France, of the popular defensive assets, have registered clean sheets.
Which chip to play?
Many managers have set up their Euros squad with a view to target Matchday 1 and plan to play the Limitless and Wildcard chip in Matchdays 2 and 3.
However, which chip is better suited to the two upcoming Matchdays?
Looking at the fixture ticker, the top teams to target are Germany, Belgium, Portugal and Croatia.
Given what we saw from England in the first game, investment in them is debatable while France are likely to be without their talisman Kylian Mbappe (€11.0m).
Czechia, Switzerland and Austria all look like good options, as well, while Ukraine will be desperate to get points on the board.
As for Matchday 3, the teams we will want to target are Germany, Spain, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal. There are not great matchups for the teams with the budget options such as Switzerland, Austria etc, so I think it makes more sense to have a bigger budget for Matchday 3 rather than Matchday 2. There’s not much to split it though.
Wildcard Matchday 2 draft
9 months, 18 days agoInteresting, your MD 1 team was exactly the same as mine with same points as I stuck with Wirtz as captain. I'm also not playing a chip in MD 2 though my transfers are different to yours, I've taken out Mbappe and Dimarco and punted on Kramaric (1st C) and Gvardiol of Croatia. Can always have Lunin in the 3rd captain option slot if really needed with Lukaku the following day.